Can Egyptian tourism survive another airline disaster?

The prospects for Egypt's vital tourism industry are looking dire after another aviation disaster.

EgyptAir flight 804, carrying 66 people from Paris to Cairo, "swerved and then plunged" into the sea early on Thursday, according to a Greek official. Debris from theAirbus 320was found on Friday. Egypt's top civil aviation official has said terrorism was a more likely cause of the crash than technical failure.

If that's the case, it would be the third attack on Egyptian aviation in six months: An EgyptAir domestic flight was hijacked in March, and terrorists brought down a Russian plane shortly after take off from Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in November, killing all 224 people on board.

"Although details of [Thursday's] incident are yet to be confirmed, the series of terrorist events hitting Egypt since 2015 raises further concerns about security at airports in the country and is very likely to deter tourists to go to this part the world," said Kinda Chebib, a senior travel analyst at Euromonitor International.